On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 13:09 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Alex Smith wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote:
> >> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote:
> >>> I change my name to "2.71828183..." or "e" for short.
> >>
> >> I'll accept 2.71828..., but don't you think picking the third-person
> >> singular pronoun 'e' might have some *slight* chance of being "a name
> >> that has generally been used to refer to another entity within the
> >> past three months"?
> >
> > Could be a potential wording scam here, given there's no entity in
> > particular that 'e' generally refers to in Agora, but instead, it's used
> > to refer to lots of different entities.
> 
> The statement "has 'e' been used to refer to another entity within the
> past three months?" is unarguably YES/TRUE.  -G.

Yep, it's the "generally" that's confusing me here, as I can't figure
out if it implies "there's an entity that 'e' generally refers to",
which is false.

-- 
ais523

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